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Personalized diffusion models (PDMs) have become prominent for adapting pre-trained text-to-image models to generate images of specific subjects using minimal training data. However, PDMs are susceptible to minor adversarial perturbations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yixin Liu , Ruoxi Chen , Xun Chen , Lichao Sun

Adversarial attacks on deep-learning models pose a serious threat to their reliability and security. Existing defense mechanisms are narrow addressing a specific type of attack or being vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. We propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mouna Rabhi , Roberto Di Pietro

Adversarial examples contain carefully crafted perturbations that can fool deep neural networks (DNNs) into making wrong predictions. Enhancing the adversarial robustness of DNNs has gained considerable interest in recent years. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Shao-Yuan Lo , Vishal M. Patel

While foundation models demonstrate impressive performance across various tasks, they remain vulnerable to adversarial inputs. Current research explores various approaches to enhance model robustness, with Diffusion Denoised Smoothing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yury Belousov , Brian Pulfer , Vitaliy Kinakh , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Image classification serves as the cornerstone of computer vision, traditionally achieved through discriminative models based on deep neural networks. Recent advancements have introduced classification methods derived from generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Chunxiao Li , Xiaoxiao Wang , Boming Miao , Chuanlong Xie , Zizhe Wang , Yao Zhu

Recent approaches employing imperceptible perturbations in input images have demonstrated promising potential to counter malicious manipulations in diffusion-based image editing systems. However, existing methods suffer from limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jie Zhang , Shuai Dong , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Diffusion models have made significant advances recently in high-quality image synthesis and related tasks. However, diffusion models trained on real-world datasets, which often follow long-tailed distributions, yield inferior fidelity for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Divin Yan , Lu Qi , Vincent Tao Hu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Meng Tang

Conventional adversarial defenses reduce classification accuracy whether or not a model is under attacks. Moreover, most of image processing based defenses are defeated due to the problem of obfuscated gradients. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 MaungMaung AprilPyone , Hitoshi Kiya

In Virtual Reality (VR), adversarial attack remains a significant security threat. Most deep learning-based methods for physical and digital adversarial attacks focus on enhancing attack performance by crafting adversarial examples that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Qianyu Guo , Jiaming Fu , Yawen Lu , Dongming Gan

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to data poisoning attacks due to its distributed nature. Although recent GAN-based data poisoning methods have indicated the potential of using generative AI to generate seemingly legitimate poisoned…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wei Sun , Yijun Chen , Bo Gao , Ke Xiong , Yuwei Wang , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

The recent wave of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has dramatically increased our text-based image generation abilities. These models can generate realistic images for a staggering variety of prompts and exhibit impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Alexander C. Li , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shivam Duggal , Ellis Brown , Deepak Pathak

Deep learning (DL)-based Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) has demonstrated great promise in detecting malicious network traffic. However, they face significant security risks due to their vulnerability to adversarial examples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Pratyay Kumar , Abu Saleh Md Tayeen , Satyajayant Misra , Huiping Cao , Jiefei Liu , Qixu Gong , Jayashree Harikumar

Diffusion-Based Purification (DBP) has emerged as an effective defense mechanism against adversarial attacks. The success of DBP is often attributed to the forward diffusion process, which reduces the distribution gap between clean and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yiming Liu , Kezhao Liu , Yao Xiao , Ziyi Dong , Xiaogang Xu , Pengxu Wei , Liang Lin

The commercialization of text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) brings forth potential copyright concerns. Despite numerous attempts to protect DMs from copyright issues, the vulnerabilities of these solutions are underexplored. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Haonan Wang , Qianli Shen , Yao Tong , Yang Zhang , Kenji Kawaguchi

DL-based automatic modulation classification (AMC) models are highly susceptible to adversarial attacks, where even minimal input perturbations can cause severe misclassifications. While adversarially training an AMC model based on an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Amirmohammad Bamdad , Ali Owfi , Fatemeh Afghah

Recent developments in text-to-image models, particularly Stable Diffusion, have marked significant achievements in various applications. With these advancements, there are growing safety concerns about the vulnerability of the model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chenyu Zhang , Lanjun Wang , Anan Liu

Neural networks are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations. Existing literature largely focused on understanding and mitigating the vulnerability of learned models. In this paper, we demonstrate an intriguing phenomenon about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Gavin Weiguang Ding , Kry Yik Chau Lui , Xiaomeng Jin , Luyu Wang , Ruitong Huang

Unsupervised domain adaptation addresses the problem of transferring knowledge from a well-labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain where the two domains have distinctive data distributions. Thus, the essence of domain adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Li Jingjing , Chen Erpeng , Ding Zhengming , Zhu Lei , Lu Ke , Shen Heng Tao

In recent years, masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising alternative approach for generative modeling over discrete domains. Compared to autoregressive models (ARMs), MDMs trade off complexity at training time with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jaeyeon Kim , Kulin Shah , Vasilis Kontonis , Sham Kakade , Sitan Chen

Adversarial attacks involve adding perturbations to the source image to cause misclassification by the target model, which demonstrates the potential of attacking face recognition models. Existing adversarial face image generation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Decheng Liu , Xijun Wang , Chunlei Peng , Nannan Wang , Ruiming Hu , Xinbo Gao